[OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update

Hermann Peifer peifer at gmx.eu
Thu May 19 09:01:30 BST 2011


On 19/05/2011 08:10, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on request.
> There's really no reason to keep them secret, I just haven't set up a
> mechanism to automatically put them on the server because I didn't think
> people were all that interested.
>

I am about to make some (rough) overview statistics for European 
countries, about the length of OSM ways (with tagfilters 
highway=motorway, railway=rail, etc.). Your country files at 
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/ are very convenient in this 
context. Thanks for this great service!

However, I wanted to see how much double-counting there might be, due to 
the simplified country borders and overlaps between neighbouring 
countries. I also wanted to know what your difference is between 
'british_isles' and 'great_britain', etc.

Other users of your files might have a similar interest.

Hermann




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